2006 best-ofs: best documentary, best foreign-language film, best animated feature

People who love films tend to love all kinds of films, but there are those with more specific tastes. Whether you’re looking for based-on-fact newsiness, the high-flying spiritedness of animated movies, or the challenge foreign-language films in which the underlying cultural rules that form the story space may be alien to your experience, there were some fantastic choices for you in 2006.Best Documentary

1. An Inconvenient Truth: We talk about important films, but this one’s consciousness-raising just might actually help save the world.

2. Deliver Us from Evil: A portrait in the banality of evil, and the hypocrisies that enable it.

3. Jesus Camp: A terrifying look inside a subculture that’s desperately trying to become the culture.

4. This Film Is Not Yet Rated: Everything that’s wrong with The Movies today gets convincingly reduced to one big issue, the MPAA.

5. The Ground Truth: Untold stories from the Iraq war — this is the stuff we should be seeing on the news, and aren’t.

Best Foreign-Language Film

1. The Science of Sleep: Multilingual confusion — the film is in French, Spanish, and English — lends another layer of pleasant chaos to its romantic reverie.